Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-09-17
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

In Lexington, Ga, lives a lady
who owns ball of yarn that was spun
and woven during the war of the Revo-
luton. The thread is seemingly sound
and whole.
A lady in this city desires us to
say, says the jackson (Tenn.) Blade,
to certain young man who is afflicted
with the serenade craze, that unless he
ceases his prosecutions Of her daughter
with his amorous midnight caterwaul-
ings she will drop pot of hot water
on his head.
The editor of the Cornwall IN. "
Register has watch he has carried for
sixty years, and his father before him
| carried it for ten years. He saysit has
been drowned twice and dashed against
a wall, but is 'just as good as ncw,'
except a little piece broken out OF the
edge Of the face.
Mr. Chauncey NJ Depew recently
| received a couple of handsome blue
china vases from the French Govern
mcnt in recognition of his connection
with the Bartholdi statue celebration.
and as graceful compliment for his
services as orator on that occasion. 1t
is said the vases are exquisite spec-
mems Of workmanship. -frank Lcslie's.
Steam yachts. luxurious luxuries
that they are becoming, keep null
| tiplying. Joseph Stickney, of the
New York Yacht Club, has just had
one built, the Susquehanna, at a cost
of one hundred thousand dollars.
She is two-masted, schooner-rigged
and measures three hundred tons. By
means Of the trunk cabin the crew may
work the vessel without going on deck
The New York Sun says there is n
fat rcstaurateur on Sixth avenue who
insists that all his walters shall be fat
and sleek. "Why?" he repeated the
other day. "Well, believe that Gus
toners are attracted by men who have
the appearance of being well fed. Be-
sides, fat walters are not so irritable as
= lean ones, and are more obliging My
fat walters have done much to adver-
tise my grub
Mrs William X. Vanderbilt is the
beauty and dasher Of all the Wander
bilts. Her social doings have ever had
a vim and style undesired, or at least
: unattaincd, by any other lady among
! them, Her toilets, her equipages, her
, diversions have been always new and
' sometimes strange, while the others
have seemed to strive for privacy, Sc
clusion and quietude. To her is due
the conception of this round-the-world
- splendor.
Speaking Of the dead conjuror,
: Hermann, London paper says: "lliS
=. tact and audacity were as magnificent
as his manipulation. After bringing
out four globes of gold fish Carger
than any other onjuror has been able
to work with) from cloth, he would
! 90 down into the stalls and request
" spectators to prod his sides and exam
y. inc his coat-tail pockets, then produc-
ing the fifth bowl, which had been ly
ing in the hollow Of his back"
The following recently appeared in
-, the "fsh' column of the New York
:. TribuRe: In 1871, when Mrs. Julia A.
. Lennon was on her wedding trip, she
!. lost her engagement ring while wash
4 Ing her hands in the toilet room of II
Pullman car. A few days ago Toledo
o fishmonger, while cleaning some white
fish, found the ring inside of one. 1t
+, still bore the inscription -. A. b.,
q Chicago, So 1t is supposed to have
=, passed through the waste pipe as the
train was crossing the St. Lawrence
and to have been snapped up as it fell.